Hanger



(No Model.)

' J. G. DUKE.

HANGER.

Patented July 19, 1892.-

lQM/w 6 WITNESSES Mar 5 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES GARLAND DUKE, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 479,254, dated July 19,1892.

' Application filed March 16, 1892- Serial No. 425,162- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES GARLAND DUKE, of Memphis, in the county ofShelby and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Hangers, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

My invention relates to animprovement in hangers especially adapted forsupporting shafting, pipes, 820., and has for its object to provide ahanger of simple, durable, and economic construction capable of beingused in connection with an overhead supportas a ceiling, for instance, afloor, or a vertical support; and another object of the invention is toprovide in connection with the hanger a box capable of adjustment uponthe hanger both vertically and laterally, which box may be employed nomatter in what position the hanger may be placed.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and

I pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures and letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the hanger and its box, the hanger beingrepresented as being suspended from and attached to an overhead support.Fig. 2- is a vertical section through the hanger, taken, practically, onthe line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the box removedfrom the hanger. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the hanger and the box,the former being illustrated as at tached to a floor or a like support;and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the box and a partial side elevationand sectional view of the hanger, the latter being represented as usedwith a vertical support.

The hanger A is angular in general contour, comprising, mainly, abody-section 10, which is ordinarily made straight, and an arm 11,projected from the body-section at one end at a right angle, asillustrated in all the figures of the drawings. That end of the bodyopposite that carrying the arm 11 may be provided with a foot 12, whichwhen employed is wider than the body, and this foot,

when the hanger is used in connection with an overhead support or isadapted for engagement with a floor, engages with the support andreceives the bolts 13 or other attaching medium; but the body of thehanger may be perfectly straight, as shown in Fig. 5,in order that itmay be connected with a vertical support in a convenient manner.

The body of the hanger is provided with two longitudinally-located slotsHand 15, placed at each side of its center, which slots are elongated,and the arm 11 of the hangerbody has a threaded aperture therein adaptedto receive an adjusting-screw 16. The box B, used in connection with thehanger, consists of a bearing 17 for the shaft or pipe, of any approvedconstruction. This bearing is supported by a bracket 18, and thisbracket comprises, ordinarily, a straight bOdY-SGCUOH a, anupwardly-curved arm a, connected with the bottom of the body andextending upward for the prime or main support for the bearing 17, andthe formation of the bracket is completed by producing at the top ahorizontal arm a extending outward at right angles to the body, and thisarm has formed therein a long transverse slot 19. The body of thebracket-section of the box is provided near the top with a transverseelongated slot 20, preferably somewhat curved, as shown in Fig. 3, andnear its lower end the said body-section of the box has an opening 21formed therein, and a recess 22 is likewise made in the under portion ofthe lower bracket-arm a.

The attachment between the box and the hanger is effected primarilythrough the medium of two adj usting-bolts 23 and 24. These bolts passone through the upper transverse slot 20 of the box and the upperlongitudinal slot in the body of the hanger. The other bolt passesthrough the lower opening 21 in the upright portion of the box andthrough the lower slot in the hanger, the said bolts be ing providedwith suitable nuts, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. WVhen the hanger 1sattached to an overhead support, as shown in Flg. 1, the adjusting-sorew 16, carried by the arm 11 of the hanger-body, which armwill now be beneath the box, enters the recess 22 of the box, and alateral adjustment may be effected by loosening the lower bolt 24, sothat the box may be turned thereon as upon a pivot, and

loosening, also, the upper bolt 23, whereby the box may be rocked uponits pivot in direction of either side of the hanger and be secured inthe desired lateral position; or a vertical adj ustmentmay be effectedby loosening both bolts 23 and 24 and manipulating the loweradjusting-screw 16 in a manner to carry the box upward or permit it tofall downward. It will be readily observed that by this means a properalignment of a shaft or line of pipe may be made, no matter whether ornot it is necessary to give the pipe or shaft a decided fall, and thatthe alignment may be accomplished in a most convenient and expeditiousmanner.

l/Vhen the hanger is to be attached to a floor or other low support, thearm 11 is at the top, and the adj ustin -screw 16 passes through theslot 19 in the upper arm a of the box, being provided with a suitablelockingnut below said arm. In this event a lateral adjustment may bemade by loosening the adjusting-screw 1G and the bolts 23 and 24, andvertical adjustment may be eifected by manipulating the adjusting-screw16 when the said bolts 23 and 24 have been loosened.

In Fig. 5 the hanger and its box are illustrated as connected with avertical support. The attachment between the hanger and the support,which may be a pillar or post, for instance, is efiected by passing theconnectingbolts 13 through the support and through the body portion ofthe hanger, and the arm 11 of the hanger in this instance is preferablylocated at the bottom,assu1ning the same position that it occupies whenthe hanger is attached to the overhead support, and the adjusting-screw16 also enters the recess 22 in the box. In order that theadjusting-bolts 23 and 24: may be manipulated when the hanger isattached to the post or pillar, the latter is provided with recesses 25to receive the heads of the bolts 23 and 2st.

It will be observed that in the construction of the hanger abovedescribed the arm of the hanger carries the adj Listing-screw, which isexceedingly needful in the manipulation of the box, and that the box issupported at all times in such manner that it may not only be adjustedvertically, but laterally also, as heretofore stated, and that no matterin what position the hanger may be placed its adjust- I ing-screw willbe brought in engagement with claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent- The combination, with a hanger capable of attachment toan overhead, to. a vertical, or to a low horizontal support, the saidhanger com prising, essentially, a body-section and an arm extending atan angle therefrom at one end, the body-section of the hanger beingprovided with elongated slots located one above the other, of a boxconsisting of a bracket comprising a body section having an elongatedtransverse slot therein near one end and an aperture near the oppositeend, an arm projected from one end of the body and having an elongatedopening formed therein, a second arm extending from the body andsupporting a bearing, the latter arm being provided with a recess,adjusting-bolts passed through the upper body-slot of the bracket andthe lower aperture therein and through the elongated slots in the bodyof the hanger, and an adjusting-screw carried by the arm of the hanger,adapted tov enter the recess in one arm of the box or pass through theslot in the opposite arm of said box, as and for the purpose specified.

JAMES GARLAND DUKE. \Vitnesses:

M. B. FREZERANT, WM. M. SMITH.

